Once again Sarah Palin is showing that she has no plans to play by the rules.

She has parted ways with FOX News after a turbulent relationship with the conservative cable news channel, taken pot shots at pundits in the 'lame stream media' and slammed her own party for selecting Mitt Romney as the 2012 Republican presidential nominee.

Now the former Alaska governor says she'll use the $1.2 million raised through her SarahPAC to 'shake up the GOP machine' and unveiled a vague vision on how she'll get her message out to a larger audience.

News broke on Friday night that she had not renewed her $1 million annual contract with FOX News, after three years as a contributor on Roger Ailes' network.

Palin then spoke out on Saturday, in an interview with Breitbart.com, saying that she was working to 'free up opportunities to share more broadly the message of the beauty of freedom and the imperative of defending our republic and restoring this most exceptional nation.'

Calling the future 'wide open' with opportunities, she shared how she plans 'to pick battles wisely, and all in due season' - hinting that she still has a fight left in her.

Her vision for the future coincided with the financial disclosure from her Political Action Committee, SarahPAC, with records released on Monday showing she ended 2012 with nearly $1.2 million in the bank.

She raised around $20,790 between Nov. 27 and Dec. 31 and spent $67,800 during that time period on expenses including consulting, speech writing and legal fees...

I hope Sarah, Levin, Rush & Beck coordinate efforts to take down the GOPe and unite the conservative base. The tea party was effective in 2010 as a loosely based coalition of local groups. It needs some strong leaders now to focus the strength of all those local groups.

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posted on 01/29/2013 2:47:51 PM PST
by BuckeyeTexan
(There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind.)

Good news....although I do wish she does makes better choices with who she supports. Palin did support Amnesty Liberals John McCain and Jeff Flake in their Senate primary runs (both are part of Gang of 8 Rubio/Obama Amnesty bill). She also tried to find a third party candidate against Todd Akin in MO...joining the RINOs sandbagging his campaign.

Hopefully that a Palin leaving Faux News she will not be influenced PhonyCon RINOs

Sorry Sarah. Too late. Our last chance to save the Republic was before Obama was re-elected to finish the job of destroying the USA economy and institutions. Too late Sarah. There won’t be anything left to save. Now it is just a matter of how fast we decline and fall.

“After the Kerry vote today; it is CLEAR we need a second party. Up to it, Sarah?”

I think it may come to that eventually. With the Republican Party rapidly transforming into the Democrat-Lite Party, we’ll need one to represent conservatives.

Governor Palin stands by her principles and will stand by them no matter what. She resonates with the “average Joe” and we need someone like that in Washington, DC to clean house.....and believe me, there will be a house that needs to be cleaned.

Williams is a loose cannon rolling around Fox’s decking..
and several other liberal hand-granades bouncing from beam to beam..

Could be O’Really is the power broker there.. who has the loyalty of a Wolverine..
His loyalty is all in his stomach.. he can dine on carrion easily..
He is like Jerry Rivers only difference he is successful..
But both are Doofussi.

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posted on 01/29/2013 2:59:57 PM PST
by hosepipe
(This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)

I can actually make a case that Ronald Reagan was a RINO. Read on before hitting the abuse button.

With the 97-3 Senate vote to confirm the treasonous John Kerry (with only Cruz, Cornyn and Inhofe taking a principled stand), and with Sarah Palin's courageous stand, it's clear that the Republican party is simply living up to its long heritage as being the establishment, go-along-to-get-along, reach across the aisle collection of Washington insiders.

The default position of the GOP is not Conservative. And I don't think it ever was. Aside from Calvin Coolidge, the only authentic Conservative to ascend to the presidency was, of course, Ronald Wilson Reagan. Barry Goldwater tried but was hampered at every turn by the Northeastern elites, the Lodges and Rockefellers, the ones who have run the party for decades.

What Reagan did was run under Republican banner but, in his wisdom, he only used the party to advance the interests of a strong Conservative America. In that sense, he was indeed a Republican in name only since his cause was far greater and far nobler than that of the GOP!

Like Sarah Palin, President Reagan went rogue and transcended the constraints of the mere GOP. Until the leftists are eliminated from the Republicans (and we clearly saw just who they were today), in the strictest sense of the term, being a RINO is -- in fact -- a badge of honor.

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posted on 01/29/2013 3:00:14 PM PST
by re_nortex
(DP...that's what I like about Texas.)

Cornyn’s no vote was cover - he’s up for re-election in 2014 - Kerry was going to be appointed anyway so this was a no-brainer vote for him. I’m sure he got together with the “boys” and explained his problem.

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posted on 01/29/2013 3:06:58 PM PST
by Grams A
(The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)

See my post earlier in this thread. It may be merely a semantic difference between us, but the enemy are CINOs, Conservative In Name Only. The Republican party has a heritage of eschewing Conservatism -- with the likes of George Norris, Thomas Dewey, Bob La Follette, Jacob Javits, Fiorello La Guardia, Olympia Collins, Bob Dole, Nelson Rockefeller and, sadly, far too many more fitting that profile.

The greatest president of my lifetime, Ronald Reagan, rose above the mere party label of "Republican" to lead a Conservative revolution, fighting the long-entrenched leadership of the party. In that sense, President Reagan was a rebellious RINO since he cast off the shackles of mere Republicanism to advance genuine Conservatism. He was the real deal.

Republican != Conservative

I'm hoping that Sarah Palin and Tea Party Patriots can change that!

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posted on 01/29/2013 3:13:27 PM PST
by re_nortex
(DP...that's what I like about Texas.)

I’m all for Sarah, no matter what ventures she attempts to aspire, but she REALLY needs to get over the John McCain is great crap. HE is part of the problem. HE is a RINO. And if she wants to call “Moderates”, like Romney, out on the carpet, she NEEDS to put McLame in there as well. ALL of them need to go.

I still say the best ticket would be Rand Paul/Allen West (in any order), but if Sarah Palin wants to jump in again...I’m for that too. However, I think she needs to get someone more acceptable to the main stream conservatives because I know many who are totally turned off on her (for whatever lame reason) and she would need to get their support somehow.

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posted on 01/29/2013 3:16:24 PM PST
by Lucky9teen
(Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.~Thomas Jeffer)

I saw her that way too. I still think she could be only time will tell.

In 2011 she read the tea leaves, saw the polls and knew she couldn’t win. It was obvious we would get Mitt as the conservatives ate each other alive, and then dropped out one by one. Don’t go into battle unless you know you can win.

I lived in Alaska for four years and don’t underestimate what she was able to do up there. The state may be low in population but their politics are tough.

I have been so angry at the capitulation of the GOP and the RINO candidates we end up with, that I would love to see her show them how things need to be done. Heck, I will probably donate to the cause.

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posted on 01/29/2013 3:21:45 PM PST
by longfellowsmuse
(last of the living nomads)

Thanks so much for posting that newspaper article from George Romney. It further adds to my point that the default position of the Republican party isn't really Conservative at all. Sarah Palin, Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater are, in fact, the outliers.

Jim Robinson has posted that Free Republic is not a Republican site but is one for Conservatism and for grassroots activism. I don't think it's a matter of taking the Republican party back...no, it's time to take it over!

Go Sarah Go!

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posted on 01/29/2013 3:28:49 PM PST
by re_nortex
(DP...that's what I like about Texas.)

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